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Medical Xpress / Scientific statement focused on post-stroke spasticity urges early diagnosis, intervention for improved recovery

For many stroke survivors, recovery is derailed by painful muscle stiffness and involuntary spasms that limit movement, independence, and quality of life. Often viewed as an unavoidable consequence of stroke, this condition—known ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / What a new twins study reveals about genes, environment and longevity

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, but there is an ongoing ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / 'Molecular glue' from this San Diego startup makes cancer self-destruct: Clinical trial begins

This local biotech says it has found a way to trick cancer cells into destroying themselves with its molecular glue. Now it's putting that claim to the test. After attracting global attention from researchers and billions ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Medical research
Medical Xpress / STS: Assessment of more than one nodal station tied to increased upstaging, survival in NSCLC

For adults with clinically node-negative non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), assessment of more than one N1 nodal station is associated with increased nodal upstaging and improved survival, according to a study presented ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Immunology
Tech Xplore / Decoding the shadows: Vehicle recognition software uncovers unusual traffic behavior

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a deep learning algorithm that analyzes drone, camera, and sensor data to reveal unusual vehicle patterns that may indicate illicit activity, ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Software
Phys.org / Rare 'universal paralog' genes may reveal a pre-LUCA evolutionary record

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ancestor" (LUCA) represents the most ancient organism that researchers can study. Previous research ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Dynamic digital product passports for short-shelf-life food and drink could cut waste and improve safety

Dynamic digital product passports—real-time, intelligent digital records that capture the true condition of perishable goods such as food and drink throughout their life cycle—could dramatically cut waste and improve ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Forest soils increasingly extract methane from the atmosphere, long-term study reveals

Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: They remove large quantities of methane—a powerful greenhouse gas—from our atmosphere. Researchers from the University of Göttingen and the Baden-Württemberg ...

Feb 4, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / 91-qubit processor accurately simulates many-body quantum chaos

Quantum chaos describes chaotic classical dynamical systems in terms of quantum theory, but simulations of these systems are limited by computational resources. However, one team seems to have found a way by leveraging error ...

Feb 2, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / DNA provides a solution to our enormous data storage problem

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to protect that information from unintended access. Now, researchers with Arizona ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / Researchers identify two emerging animal viruses as potential global health threats

Infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about two pathogens in animals that have the potential to trigger the next major health crisis.

Feb 7, 2026 in Health
Tech Xplore / A bot-only social media platform: What the Moltbook experiment is teaching us about AI

What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning. Moltbook is exactly that—a platform where artificial intelligence agents ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Computer Sciences